Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church Iglesia Católica San Juan el Evangelista June 18, 2017 — Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

18 de junio de 2017 — El Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo

LITURGY SCHEDULE Saturday ................................................... …...5:30 p.m Sunday........................................................... 9:00 a.m. Daily Masses: ..Thursday …….. 8:30 a.m ..Wednesday and Friday …….. 12 noon CONFESSIONS (Saturday)………. 4:30 p.m. or by appointment

HORARIO LITURGICO Domingo…………………………………….12:15 p.m (Español) Misa Diaria: ...Jueves ………. . .….. 8:30 a.m (Ingles) ..Miércoles y Viernes ……… 12:00 del medio día CONFESIONES (Sábado) ............. 4:30 p.m. o por cita

HORARIO DE OFICINAS LUNES—JUEVES: 9:00 a.m.—3:00 p.m. VIERNES: 9:00 a.m. - 12 del medio dia OFFICE HOURS Monday—Thursday: 9:00 a.m.—3:00 p.m. Friday: 9:00 a.m.—12 NOON

El CUERPO Y LA SANGRE DE CRISTO

St John Parish Calendar SATURDAY June 17, 2017 4:30 PM Reconciliation 5:30 PM Mass soul of Doug Stanley SUNDAY June 18, 2017 9:00 AM Mass for all fathers living & deceased 10:00 AM Rosary 12:15 PM Misa WEDNESDAY June 21, 2017 12:00 Noon Mass THURSDAY June 22, 2017 8:30 AM Mass FRIDAY June 23, 2017 12:00 Noon Mass for soul of Mary Beth Enderson SATURDAY June 24, 2017 4:30 PM Reconciliation 5:30 PM Mass soul of Doug Stanley SUNDAY June 25, 2017 9:00 AM Mass for all emergency personnel 10:00 AM Rosary 12:15 PM Misa por el alma de Ligia Rosa Herrera ST. PETER OFFERS MASS DAILY AT NOON

REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS/ RECUERDE EN SUS ORACIONES: Keith Pinney, Edna Stanley, Rudy Calo’oy, John Kolakoski, Ron Price, Jr., Red and Nancy Goodman, Pat & Jerry Nolte, Richard Painter, Deborah Shorter, Virginia Saunders, Maxine DiMarino, Isaias Fuentes, Melanie Patterson, Lillan Arthur, Carole Trent, Mary Helen Sohaski, Thomas Whitehead, Esperanza Godinez, Shirley Hughes, Barbara Greene, Leslie Gray, Eugene Cooley, Joel Rivera, Sherry Wright, and Lou Burnett, Prayers for members of the Armed Forces; Daniel Gau-dette, David Licciardello, Josh Drumheller, Lee Balderson, Daniel Johnson and Shon Azubike.

813 W Nine Mile Road, Highland Springs VA 23075 *Website—Página electrónica: www.stjohnscatholicchurch.org *Email– Correo Electrónico office@stjohnscatholicchurch.org 804-737-8028 • Fax: 804-328-4683 Pastor - Párroco .. Rev. Gino Rossi., ginopaulrossi@hotmail.com Parochial Vicar—Vicario Parroquial .. Rev. Frank Wiggins, padreop@verizon.net Parochial Vicar—Vicario Parroquial .. Rev. Ernest Livasia Bulinda, livasia@gmail.com Dir. Religious Education - Dir. de Educación Religiosa… Paulita Matheny… pmatheny@stjohnscatholicchurch.org Bookkeeper —Contador… David Stull…. dstull@stjohnscatholicchurch.org Music Coordinator ….. Coordinador del Coro…..Angela Pometto…. apometto@richmonddiocese.org Emergency contact number / Número en caso de emergencia 804-402-1221

June 10 & 11, 2017 Weekly Actual $3,607.35 Budgeted $5,170.00 Difference ($1,562.65) Year to Date Actual $232,460.43 Budgeted $258,500.00 Difference ($26,039.57) Monthly Debt Expense $1,860.00 Monthly Debt Collection $1,441.01 Difference ($418.99) Remaining Debt Balance $56,543.59 MASS ATTENDANCE 5:30 9:00 12:15 81 185 180

The item being collected for FISH for June Apple Sauce En el mes de junio (Puré de Manzana)

"I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him." - Jn 6:51, 55-56 Readings for the Week of June 18, 2017 Sunday: Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a/Ps 147:12-15, 19-20/ 1Cor 10:16-17/Jn 6:51-58 Monday: 2 Cor 6:1-10/Ps 98:1, 2b, 3-4/Mt 5:38-42 Tuesday: 2 Cor 8:1-9/Ps 146:2, 5-9a/Mt 5:43-48 Wednesday: 2 Cor 9:6-11/Ps 112:1bc-4, 9/Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday: 2 Cor 11:1-11/Ps 111:1b-4, 7-8/Mt 6:7-15 Friday: Dt 7:6-11/Ps 103:1-4, 6-8, 10/1 Jn 4:7-16/ Mt 11:25-30 Saturday: Vigil: Jer 1:4-10/Ps 71:1-6, 15, 17/1 Pt 1:8-12/ Lk 1:5-17 Day: Is 49:1-6/Ps 139:1-3, 13-15/Acts 13:22-26/ Lk 1:57-66, 80 Next Sunday: Jer 20:10-13/Ps 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35/ Rom 5:12-15/Mt 10:26-33

St. John's Summer Bible Study St. John's Summer Bible Study is back. We will be studying the Gospel of Mark this summer beginning on Monday evening June 19 at 7:00 in the conference room in the back of the church and meeting on most subsequent Mondays. We will once more be using the Ig-natius Catholic Bible Study. For more information please contact Dan Mages at 804-328-1602 or danielrmages@yahoo.com. There is also a flyer on the Knights of Columbus bulletin board in the narthex which has additional details. Please join us as we study the roots of our faith and untangle some of those passages of scrip-ture that may have had you scratching your head and say-

Happy Fathers Day to Fr. Rossi, Fr Frank and Fr. Ernest. And a joyful and happy day to ALL fa-thers. May you be blessed for all you do.!

CONGRATULATIONS To the following youth of St. John who re-ceived the Sacrament of Confirmation this past week end at the Cathedral of the Sa-cred Heart by Bishop Francis DiLorenso. Felicidades a todo nuestros jóvenes que este pasado domingo recibieron el Sacramento de la Con-firmación en la Catedral de manos del Señor Obispo Fran-cisco DiLorenso. April Arteaga, Roxanna Bedoya, Linda Chavez, Daniel Enderson, Nayeli Lara, Enrique Lopez and Alberto Macias. May they continue to be blessed by the Holy Spirit. Que Dios continúe bendiciéndo-los a través del Espirito Santo. Thanks to the Knights of Columbus for power washing and staining the St John's rectory deck.

Please join the celebration on Sunday, July 2, after 10:45 a.m mass at St Patrick to honor Father Frank Wiggins on his 65th birthday!

Hello everyone!!! Today is one of my favorite feast days of the whole year. It is Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. There are few things that distinguish us as Catholics as does the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Body and Blood we receive each week at Mass. It is a very solemn teaching and central as-pect of our faith. It is why we go to Mass even when we don’t feel like it, it is why we are reverent at Mass and why we try to focus even when our mind wanders, it is why we should nag our kids to go to Mass even if they hate us for it (I give all of you parents and grandparents full approval to nag your kids, one day when they meet Jesus then they will know you were right), it is why we love the Mass even when the music or my homily is bad…all those things that might prevent us from attending and fully entering into the Mass MUST be overcome and pushed to the wayside be-cause of what is made present at the Mass, the Body and Blood of God. Even I dare say, on VACATION…we wouldn’t even consider missing Mass because how could any Sunday be complete without that intimate encounter with God in the Body and Blood of Christ. So now let me tell you about a dream of mine. Much of this dream will come true. Some of you older folks will remember the days of Eucharistic processions. Remember those? They were great! People would walk through the streets with the Blessed Sacrament leading the way, with incense, singing, etc. All through the town for all to see, including fallen away Catholics looking out their windows and non-Christians…the whole town had to check and see what was going on…what those ‘crazy Catholics’ were up to. In the future, my dream is to have a Eucharistic procession here in Richmond. I will let you decide where possibility and my dreams meet. But here’s what I think we are going to do. We will start at St Peter, the original Cathedral of the Diocese. They we will march up Grace Street to the governor’s mansion and the state capital. We will march around the governor’s man-sion and the state capital buildings like Joshua marched around Jericho in the Old Testament. My hope is not that those buildings fall as did the walls of Jericho, but I do hope the walls of arro-gance and ignorance surrounding the hearts of politicians fall so that God’s light and wisdom can shine on them. It will be a glorious procession with the Blessed Sacrament lead-ing the way. Thousands and thousands will crowd the streets just to get a peek at the King of Kings. People will throw rose petals under the feet of those who carry the monstrance. The whole of Richmond will sing and worship and cry out what people in the Book of Revelation cry out all day long while in heaven “worthy are you Lord to receive glory and honor and power, for you have created all things and by your will they came to be and were made” Afterwards we will baptize all who have not yet been baptized and everyone will become Catholic. Then, this scenario will be repli-cated at every town and city across the country and even the whole world, from China to Africa to South America to Antarctica. And all will come to know and love the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. What a glorious thing that will be. One day it will for sure happen. I reckon that’s a reasonable day in the life of Heaven. But for now, I still think we can do a nice bit of it. They have a very amazing Eucharistic Procession each year on the Virginia Beach boardwalk in October. So maybe we will start to plan something for here. Let’s pray about it. I hope you enjoy this wonderful feast day today. I leave you with a nice prayer to say throughout the day. “May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen” Fr Rossi

SAVE THE DATE - Coming July 2nd after both Masses. Faith Formation Information and Reg-istration Weekend! Get information about & regis-ter your child for the sacraments of First Holy Com-munion and Confirmation as well as regular faith for-mation classes for preschoolers through teens. Repre-sentatives from the Faith Formation ministry will be there to answer your questions. All Saints Catholic School is accepting applications for pre-K, K, grades 2, 4, 6, 7 & 8. All Saints is a school of high moral expectations & academic rigor with real-world diversity and hands-on learning with LEGO Robotics, STEM & Art Integra-tion, a community garden, Spanish, music, sports, and high school credits. Call for a personal tour (804 329-7524) or visit our website at www.allsaintsric.org.